Variorum Collected Studies
About the Book Series
The first title in the Variorum Collected Studies series was published in 1970. Since then over 1000 titles have appeared in the series, and it has established a well-earned international reputation for the publication of key research across a whole range of subjects within the fields of history. The history of the medieval world remains central to the series, with Byzantine studies a particular speciality. Other major strands include Islamic studies and the histories of philosophy, science and medicine.
Each title in the Variorum Collected Studies series brings together for the first time a selection of articles by a leading authority on a particular subject. These studies are reprinted from a vast range of learned journals, Festschrifts and conference proceedings. They are an essential resource making available research that is scattered or inaccessible in all but the most specialized libraries.
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Studies on Eastern Orthodox Church Chant
1st Edition
By Svetlana Kujumdzieva
May 06, 2025
This book focuses on the compilation of the different practices of Eastern Orthodox Chant, looking at the subject through various languages, practices, and liturgical books and letters. The subject of this book is also analysed through newly found, unique material, to provide the entire history of ...
The Winged Lion and the Eight-Pointed Cross: Venice, Hospitaller Malta, and the Mediterranean in Early Modern Times
1st Edition
By Victor Mallia-Milanes
May 06, 2025
The papers reprinted in this volume focus on the extraordinary and multifaceted relationship between two Christian States: the Republic of Venice and the Island Order State on Hospitaller Malta between 1530 and the late 1790s. It was marked by three distinct phenomena – military cooperation along ...
Etat et société dans l’Empire Ottoman, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles: La terre, la Guerre, les Communautés
1st Edition
By Gilles Veinstein
January 30, 2025
The first group of studies in this volume tackles the controversial question of the nature of the Ottoman landholding system and the extent to which large estates, the çiftlik, emerged as a reaction to the increasing Western European demand for Ottoman agricultural produce. The following section ...
From the Later Roman Empire to Late Antiquity and Beyond
1st Edition
By Averil Cameron
January 30, 2025
Averil Cameron is one of the leading historians of late antiquity and Byzantium. This collection (Cameron’s third in the Variorum series) discusses the changing approach among historians of the later Roman empire from the 1960s to the present and the articles reproduced have been chosen to reflect ...
Reading Gender: Studies on Medieval Manuscripts and Medievalist Movies
1st Edition
By Felice Lifshitz
January 30, 2025
This collection brings together twelve essays published between 1988 and 2014, two of which are here translated into English from (respectively) their original French or German. All the essays use gender as the main category of analysis, whether of late ancient or early medieval texts or of modern ...
Studies in Islamic Traditions and Literature
1st Edition
By Roberto Tottoli
December 18, 2024
A collection of articles and studies discussing early Islamic tenets and beliefs based on Islamic traditions and literature. A number of studies appear for the first time in English. The topics dealt with relate to the Islamic prostration in ritual prayer, Islamic traditions which are discussed ...
Engaging with the Past, c.250-c.650
1st Edition
By Brian Croke
November 28, 2024
Between c.250 and c.650, the way the past was seen, recorded and interpreted for a contemporary audience changed fundamentally. Only since the 1970s have the key elements of this historiographical revolution become clear, with the recasting of the period, across both east and west, as ‘late ...
Studies on Aby Warburg, Fritz Saxl and Gertrud Bing
1st Edition
By Dorothea McEwan
November 28, 2024
Originally published in German, Italian and French these articles have been translated into English for the first time by the author, the former archivist of The Warburg Institute, London. Aby Warburg’s research and writings centred on images, their origins and metamorphoses, and their explanations...
Le marchand et les poids et mesures
1st Edition
By Jean-Claude Hocquet
October 09, 2024
Published in French in this Variorum volume, these chapters represent over twenty years of scholarship and publication. Many have been updated and translated from German and Italian into French for the first time. The chapters all deal with merchants, of whom the author is a world-renowned ...
Trade and Enterprise: The Muslim Tujjar in the Ottoman Empire and Qajar Iran, 1860-1914
1st Edition
By Gad Gilbar
October 08, 2024
Until recently, the historiography of Middle Eastern economic elites during the first globalization has ignored the significant role played by Muslim tujjār (big merchant-entrepreneurs). Foreign firms and local minorities were considered the prime agents of economic change and the initiators ...
Aspects of War in the Late Middle Ages
1st Edition
By Christopher Allmand
May 27, 2024
This Variorum collection of articles is intended to illustrate that conflict in the late Middle Ages was not only about soldiers and fighting (about the makers and the making of war), important as these were. Just as it remains in our own day, war was a subject which attracted writers (commentators...
The Merovingians: Kingship, Institutions, Law, and History
1st Edition
By Alexander Murray
May 27, 2024
The studies collected here cover a period of about 33 years, from 1986 to 2019, and represent a sustained effort to understand the institutions of the Merovingian kingdom and its history. There has long been a predisposition to cast the Merovingian period in the dark colours of barbarism or to ...